2022-10-15 01:24 |
FTX’s proposal to cut out the middlemen in U.S. crypto derivatives has shaken traditional financial firms, but the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said the idea could mark an “evolution” in the way markets work. origin »
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The last few years have been exceptional for NFTs. Our idea of digital assets and their ownership has experienced (and is still experiencing) rapid evolution. Very few people would have boldly predicted a public tweet selling for $2.
2021-12-3 16:10 | |
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Mainstream adoption for emerging altcoin projects is a constant topic within the crypto community that might be a conversation that exists in perpetuity. Most notably because the idea of “adoption” in crypto isn’t tangible or measurable.
2021-8-7 01:54 | |
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Simply an idea or a story in itself can go a long way for people. Just look at this story about an invisible sculpture being sold for $18,000. The work, titled Io Sono or “I Am,”, by the Italian Salvatore Garau, doesn’t exist… except in the artist’s imagination. This is the case for most NFTs […]
2021-6-18 21:23 | |
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The only change is constant. Blockchain is a representation of this evolution. The idea of creating “money Legos” in finance atop a decentralized and secure layer free from the middle man seemed unfeasible some years back.
2020-12-24 13:33 | |
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“Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation” -Dean Kamen The definition of the word innovation may be dreary but it is something that has set the pace of human evolution.
2019-9-15 17:30 | |
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Consider that years ago the idea of paper money — let alone digital money — seemed abstract. In fact, when Marco Polo first came back from his travels in the East, his stories of people in China using paper representations of money (as opposed to metal) were discredited as sorcery.
2018-9-26 13:00 | |
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In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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The Labour government said the bill will give owners of bitcoin and other digital assets greater legal protection.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Tulip Siddiq as the City Minister, a role that oversees financial services including crypto.
Taiwan's crypto advocacy body, the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, has been formally established and the founding meeting held with 24 cryptocurrency-related entities.
The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.